Last year on St. Patrick’s Day, I posted some thoughts on John Ford’s perennial classic, “The Quiet Man” (1952), and Maurice Walsh’s book, “Green Rushes” (1935), the collection of stories – really a novel, as all the stories are interconnected – that inspired it. I finally got around to reading it in a reissue, as “The Quiet Man and Other Stories,” after having had it in my library for 30 years.
Toward the end of the post, I mentioned a forthcoming musical, based on another Walsh novel, “Castle Gillian” (1948). (An earlier musical based on “The Quiet Man,” “Donnybrook,” tanked in 1960.) Well, it appears “Castle Gillian” is upon us, and it looks like one freaky, virtual reality uncanny valley. To borrow from the title of yet another one of Walsh’s books, trouble in the glen, indeed!
More about it here
https://fivars.net/spotlight/fivars-2023-spotlight-on-castle-gillian-an-irish-tale/
More still
https://www.kazanandpurcell.com/castle-gillian/
My reflections on Maurice Walsh and “The Quiet Man”
An interview with Maurice Walsh
https://www.rte.ie/archives/2022/1030/1330613-writer-maurice-walsh/
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